Ambient music is the basic concept here. Comparisons to Tori Amos are valid in terms of the vocals and somewhat in terms of the music, too. This is more progressive rock oriented than a lot of Tori Amos’ work, though. If there’s a question with including it in the progressive rock section, it’s because the “rock” part is missing. Still, this combines ambient sounds, world music textures and jazz into a sound that makes for an interesting and quite intriguing album. It’s definitely sedate, but also complex and quite entertaining.

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Keyboards and vocals create the main song elements here. This is dramatic and powerful. It’s moody and pretty. It’s slow moving and rather dark, but also very cool. Around the two and a half minute mark it powers out into a more rocking tune. The vocals here are quite like something from Tori Amos and the music has a real world music meets progressive rock and classical kind of texture. Percussion dominates for a while later and then symphonic elements are heard over the top of chanting type vocals. Atmospheric progressive rock motifs take over for a while later. Then it moves out to a piano dominated movement from there.